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== Merit badge requirements ==

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:1. Write a satisfactory business, and a personal letter.

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:2. State fundamental principles of buying and selling.

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:3. Know simple bookkeeping.

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:4. Keep a complete and actual account of personal receipts and expenditures for six months.

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:5. State how much money would need to be invested at 5 per cent. to earn his weekly allowance of spending money for a year.